Carroll’s particular mix of creativity, fantasy, word play, satire, nonsense, and dry wit have gained him iconic status in popular culture with such memorable characters as Alice herself, the March Hare, the wise Dodo, a mad Hatter, the hookah smoking Blue Caterpillar, and the Cheshire Cat. He is the source of such oft-quoted witticisms, puns and nonsense phrases like “Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it”, “We called him Tortoise because he taught us”, “No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise”, “She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)”, “I can't explain myself, I’m afraid, because I’m not myself, you see”, “The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday—but never jam today”, “Sentence first, verdict afterwards”, and “Curiouser and curiouser!”
Carroll's original poem was very different from the one what was eventually published.
Fury was the name of a fox terrier, owned by Carroll's child-friend Eveline Hull.
Carroll once proposed an additional change in the poem's final part. The revised stanza would have been:
Said the mouse to the cur. "Such a trial, dear Sir.
With no jury or judge, would be tedious and dry."
"I'll be the jury," said cunning old Fury:
"I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to die."
The carroll poem -
`Fury said to a mouse,
That he met in the house,
"Let us both go to law: I will prosecute YOU.
--Come, I'll take no denial;
We must have a trial:
For really this morning I've nothing to do."
Said the mouse to the cur,
"Such a trial, dear Sir,
With no jury or judge, would be wasting our breath."
"I'll be judge, I'll be jury,"
Said cunning old Fury:
"I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death."'
Carroll’s particular mix of creativity, fantasy, word play, satire, nonsense, and dry wit have gained him iconic status in popular culture with such memorable characters as Alice herself, the March Hare, the wise Dodo, a mad Hatter, the hookah smoking Blue Caterpillar, and the Cheshire Cat. He is the source of such oft-quoted witticisms, puns and nonsense phrases like “Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it”, “We called him Tortoise because he taught us”, “No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise”, “She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)”, “I can't explain myself, I’m afraid, because I’m not myself, you see”, “The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday—but never jam today”, “Sentence first, verdict afterwards”, and “Curiouser and curiouser!”
Carroll's original poem was very different from the one what was eventually published.
Fury was the name of a fox terrier, owned by Carroll's child-friend Eveline Hull.
Carroll once proposed an additional change in the poem's final part. The revised stanza would have been:
Said the mouse to the cur. "Such a trial, dear Sir.
With no jury or judge, would be tedious and dry."
"I'll be the jury," said cunning old Fury:
"I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to die."
The carroll poem -
`Fury said to a mouse,
That he met in the house,
"Let us both go to law: I will prosecute YOU.
--Come, I'll take no denial;
We must have a trial:
For really this morning I've nothing to do."
Said the mouse to the cur,
"Such a trial, dear Sir,
With no jury or judge, would be wasting our breath."
"I'll be judge, I'll be jury,"
Said cunning old Fury:
"I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death."'